HUFFINES MIDDLE

Set in LEWISVILLE, Texas, HUFFINES MIDDLE is a moderately sized middle school, operated by LEWISVILLE ISD. It enrolls 612 students across grades 6 through 8.

LEWISVILLE ISD comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 47,876 students; HUFFINES MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, HUFFINES MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 20% Black, 17% White, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting HUFFINES MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at HUFFINES MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Denton County's rate of about 35%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HUFFINES MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.4%; HUFFINES MIDDLE posts 29.8%, -14.6 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Denton County put median household earnings sit near $111,498, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which HUFFINES MIDDLE is one.

DEGAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HUFFINES MIDDLE comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. HUFFINES MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 827 (now 612). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 29% to 17%.

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